Tina Fey and Amy Poehler Developing New Shows

Fey and Poehler each announced new projects for the small screen yesterday. Fey will collaborate with comedienne and Chelsea Lately writer Fortune Feimster on a semi-autobiographical multi-cam sitcom at ABC. Creators Feimster and Matt Hubbard based the show on the former’s North Carolina background and family life; Fey will executive produce. Feimster worked with Fey and Hubbard on the buried-before-it-aired Cabot College.

Poehler, meanwhile, will stay at NBC and develop a single-cam workplace comedy with Parks and Recreation executive producer Aisha Muharrar. Poehler’s protege will pen the new series, in which “a young agnostic woman inherits a church and the colorful ensemble of characters within,” according to the AV Club.

For those in serious Fey/Poehler withdrawal like myself, the latter’s memoir, Yes, Please, will go on sale next week on October 28. Then we’ll have to suffer through a few months until the duo returns to host the Golden Globes for a third time on January 11, 2015. Next year will also bring back Parks and Rec for its final, 13-episode season, as well as the premiere of Fey’s The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, starring Ellie Kemper as a woman who struggles to navigate Manhattan life after escaping a cult.